Despite lawmakers’ concerns over a possible effect on hobby farming, Sedgwick County moved a step closer Wednesday to being able to clean up some of the county’s worst public nuisances. The House Local Government Committee on Wednesday advanced Senate Bill 52, a measure to give the county government the kind of authority cities already have to correct hazardous situations and bill the property owner for doing it. The committee voted to send the bill to the full House after Jason Watkins, a former legislator and now lobbyist for Sedgwick County, explained the problems the county’s having with neighborhoods that are urban in nature, surrounded by Wichita but never annexed.
Source: Wichita Breaking News, Sports & Crime |
